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Employ a mexican drug cartel to blow up the saudi diplomat at a restaurant in washington. talk about making it complicatedch the unusually high profile target, combined with the fact that it would have been not only on american soil but in our nation's capital as a venue, seems a serious escalation in the struggle between iran, saudi arabia and weaves in mexico and the west. let's bring in our mega panel to discuss. joining us now, imogen lloyd weber and jonathan capehart of the "washington post" and rob cox out of reuters. rob, no secret with the shia and sunni divide in the middle east, iran...

Like this, and i wonder do you share the same skepticism for the narrative that rob just articulated? >> i do. i'm feeling incredibly manipulated right here. we don't know the half of it. don't know what's going on behind the scenes. i specialize in international relationships and the secret world at cambridge university, ie spies. we do not know what is going on. the american government was wrong before, let's remember iraq and weapons of mass destruction. we do know obviously iran has been involved in a covert were, as it were, for some time with the west but iran is the one that's suffering...

Light green and then as a result of american military intervention in iraq and the weakness of that government, there's been an opportunity for iran to expand its theater of power into iraq and for that matter to the east, into afghanistan, which, of course, makes saudi arabia remarkably nervous. we've heard a lot, rob, about sanctions against iran. is there a point where the american alliance with saudi arabia really has to start to get called into question? >> well, i mean, you can -- of course. if you look at the saudi government, you look at the human rights abuses. i mean, of course, we s...

The u.s. government has made on this one. i mean, probably will say that, oh, my god, how can you diminish the idea that there was this terrorist plot. i just don't see it. i don't see what's to gain by doing this. you know, would you just -- really annoy the united states. we don't -- i don't think iran is super-duper crazy. it might be a pretty wacky place, but i don't think it's super-duper crazy. i wait to see a lot more evidence, and if you read what experts on this are saying, hold back. this feels like yellow cake uranium all over again, and i don't trust what governments say. it's what...